Product Manager

**Salary**: Competitve
**Contract**:Permanent
**Hours**:Full time, 36 hours
**Location**:Hybrid Working
**Annual Leave**:29 days

**About the Role**

Do you love everything digital? Our team thrives on working together and we are looking for individuals who really want to make a difference to peoples lives.

As product manager you will be a champion of agile, able to lead multi-disciplinary squads using data to prioritise and iterate our web services in line with the needs of our users. You will manage the product life cycle, gathering and prioritising user and business requirements to define a product vision, working with stakeholders to maintain alignment. Some key activities that the Product Manager will carry out are as follows:

- Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Create, own and prioritise the product backlog
- Represent the user by understanding their needs
- Deliver value through digital products and driving digital adoption
- Understand and balance user needs with organisational objectives to frame problems

**About Us**

In Digital and IT, we want to encourage behaviours that support the values of both of our Councils.
- Within teams and across the broader Digital and IT department, we'll be expecting more senior team members to play an active part in developing, mentoring and buddying the less senior members of the team, even if they do not have direct line management responsibility for them. This way, we aim to build a high-performing and flexible team that supports one another and is able to deliver both ongoing service and transformational change for Digital and IT customers and communities.
- All team members have the opportunity to develop and display leadership qualities by taking ownership of the work they do and being committed and present in their interactions with other team members and with our customers
- We expect every member of staff to invest in their own personal development and breadth of experience and capability. This is not achieved purely through formal training courses but also by getting involved, being inquisitive, challenging yourself and seeking out other opportunities to learn and to stay up-to-date with technology and business direction
- We have the responsibility of digitally enabling our Councils and communities - so every team member should be an ambassador for our solutions and technologies, whether or not they are in a technical role. We need to set an example by using our digital capabilities and facilities in full and with our customers so that they are inspired by what technology could do for them.

**About You**

To be successful in the role of Product Manager, you will be able to demonstrate the following key criteria:

- significant experience of working as a product manager delivering complex projects
- You are able to represent the user at all levels by understanding their needs
- You can own and write a business case for financial funding
- Data driven
- Natural problem solver

**Our Offer To You**

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff supported by our IT infrastructure, Google Chromebooks and Google Apps, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative and streamlined working. The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to be even more flexible in how we work and manage staff workloads, ensuring they have the correct equipment and resources to be able to maximise their talents and looking after their wellbeing.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Three volunteering days per year
- Flexible working arrangements
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership